Traditional animation making a comeback?

Disney's upcoming animated feature The Princess and the Frog will be tradtionally hand drawn, not CGI. I believe that Disney has a traditionally animated Rapunzel feature coming down the pike as well.
 
Traditional animation isn't making a comeback because it never went away. Persepolis and The Triplets of Belleville were both hand-drawn and traditionally animated. Plus, as was pointed out above, Disney has hand-drawn features in the wings.

On a similar note, CGI isn't going anywhere either; it's considered the latest thing right now, but eventually the novelty will wear off, and we won't see as many CG films as before, but the medium won't be coming to an end either. Both are just different ways of telling a story, and there's no reason that both styles can't peacefully co-exist.
 
More than likely, yes. We're living in the technological age, after all. You'd be hard pressed to find a animated feature that uses no computer technology whatsoever. It's easier to digitize backgrounds and the like than it is to draw them by hand.
 
The only ones who truly believed that 2-D animation was dead and CGI would completely replace it were sort-sighted higher-ups at the studios. And if the Princess and the Frog is a blockbuster (and it will almost certainly will be), the studios will change their minds big-time.
 
Disney needs not just return to 2-D but return to adapting fairy tales / classic literature. Whether they will or not is another story.

I don't think either will completely die out. Nor do I think either will get much mainstream respect in the USA. The first thing my father said when he saw the "Clone Wars" movie trailer was, "Why are they doing it as a cartoon? That ruins the whole thing!"

Animation in general is rare in the US, with less than 10 theatrical animated movies being made per year. Thus its harder to analyze what the trends are.

Though I disagree with the notion that CGI will replace 2D. Digital 2D animation has a radically different look than traditional 2d and anyone who watches the recent Japanese shows and movies has seen just what staggering potential they have.
 
Well,even I don't think it's a good idea.There's ALREADY a Clone Wars movie.People need to come up with their own ideas instead of regurgitating something that has yet to even begin to be forgotten.

I mean,the orange chick with the baby Chabba the Hut was cheezy.I think she stayed in the spray tanning booth too long. :D :p
 
Are you sure you can call CGI a "novelty?" CGI isn't just a fad people like because it's pretty (which may not be how you meant it, but it comes off that way. Sorry if you don't); it's an animation method, just like hand-drawn, stop-motion or claymation. It's the "latest thing" like sound/color was the"latest thing". :shrug:

You're right about co-existing though; Plus people don't hate 2-D stuff, companies just stopped making them.
 
I didn't mean it that way; by "novelty" I meant how so many American studios are doing CGI now because it's considered the latest and greatest thing. Nearly every animated feature is CGI right now because they've proven successful, and so of course every other studio wants in on that success; it's a classic case of monkey see, monkey do. Eventually, that notion will die down and CG will just become another medium, alongside hand-drawn, stop-motion, puppetry, what have you.
 
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